If statues representing the leaders of the Civil War are there for the sake of history, then why are we not adding statues, murals and rock carvings about the slavery they fought to maintain?
Do these southern states have statues to Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks and kindergartner Ruby Bridges, to name just a few? Are there murals to represent the separate by (un)equal laws for water fountains, bathrooms, schools, restaurants, etc.?
Documenting the KKK and lynchings of black Americans and the Civil Rights movement with its consequent murders of innocent Americans are probably considered too inflammatory to portray in city squares, but still a most significant part of our history.
If the Civil War statues supposedly document history, then document all of it.
Barbara Vest
Everett
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